Friday, 17 September 2010

Government fund the arts

The time we are in is when the industrial machine age is nearly over. Fossil fuels are running out and according to people in the industry it will run out completely in the next 5 to 10 years. This means there will be even less jobs.

My plan of action is the government backs the arts even more then ever. People will then learn how to use there imagination, the use of there hands, learn craft and traditional skills. There is so little funding in the arts in recent decades I have never seen a penny from it. If I lived in Holland or France I would be given a weekly wage and a pat on the back. In the UK, I volunteer my time as an artist nearly 50 weeks of the year. I make two weeks pay last me a whole year. When the Bishop that came to visit the UK said that the UK was like a third world country I was pleased he said that, because for most of us it is. The divide between rich and poor is enormous. There may be an illusion that poor people are rich because they have a car or TV, but this is just an illusion they took out a loan to pay for it and have become even poorer from the loan gaining interest.

One would hope that the government puts more money towards the arts to get a greater return in jobs and happiness. If not then the richest people in the country should be forced by the government to put some cash into the arts, after all the rich people not long ago use to commission artists to do portraits and murals, plays, music and performance.

If you think the government should at least talk about it. Then please sign the petition here

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Eloise O'Hare

Tea lady

About me

Full time professional artist that is hard of hearing (deaf). Although recently had an operation that has considerably improved my hearing. Please get in contact with Gallery Norfolk, if you would like to buy any work or commission me to make some art.

2015 Paint Out Norwich Award winning Artist coming Third in the day times landscape events.

I work on large scale projects like Norwich Pride, Norwich Rising, festivals, volunteer and assistant at NNUH Hospital ArtsProject, acting and making films, Dandifest, general festivals etc. Also design, paint and make art. If you would like to buy my work please contact Gallery Norfolk in Cromer. My political cartoons have been published in VN magazine in Netherlands.

I also have been published in several books, magazines, lonely planets, BBC, ITV, RTE, FOX TV, Anglia TV, Mustard TV, Irish Feature Films, Australia independent films, UK independent films, Canadian feature films, and online websites, theatres. Have had been working and selling art for 47 years. I am from a long line of ancestor artists going a long way back as well as a large family of living artists that live in East Anglia and across the globe. I have studied in Dublin and further study at City College Norwich with Brenda and Mike. Then had the joy of studying at Great Yarmouth Art and Design college by the beach with a host of the very best artists and designers in Norfolk, specialising in illustration with the guidance of great POP artist Dudley Edwards. Going on to Bradford and Ikley Community art college where I specialised in print making and large sculptures. Heading down under and going on Australias first womens carpentry course meeting Kath Ellis and we went on to study the art of Bamboo through the community and built some monumental sculptures and buildings. We skill shared bamboo in Java with artists. I then went back to Dublin to perform and learn rod puppets under the guidence of the lambert family. Then back to Norwich City college to get up on computer skills and teacher training. In the past few years I have been a graphic reporter and covering meetings and events with on the spot sketches mostly covering the ABCD project. I have also taken up children's party portraits. I like to be outside to catch the rays so I am mostly plein air landscape painting or growing vegetables on my allotment.

If you would like me to be an artist my daily rate is £450. Day and evening £650 and day and night £1500 . These are based on official rates of pay for artists. I have a day and night rate because clients often want art work done for a tight deadline, which requires working day and night. I prefer if art time is spread over shorter shifts. Also materials and additional costs on top as well as travel and hotel expenses etc, and if paid art assistance is required a budget would be worked out.

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